Category: Writing

  • The Thick of It by Liz Martelli

    In the thick of it, It’s too dense to make Out the mistakes before You commit to them But there’s always an out, A loophole you can slip Through when shit Gets rough. In the thick of it, The blur that is It happening Can be indistinguishable From the general static and Hum of the…

  • Me and I by Liz Martelli

    My father and i are close at arm’s length He tells me I embarrass him Because I wobbled off the Straight and narrow, Refused to bleat with the Rest of the white sheep, And became black. My mother and I have Always been too close Too close encouraging a bond That if broken, could kill…

  • rabbit scratching by Liz Martelli

    This rabbit beating heart pupils so dilated they absorb the world around them so accurately, so acutely so much it hurts. My heart is so swollen with a passionate taste For love A thirst for companionship and lust and sex and philosophical, spiritual, emotional Fulfillment. This rabbit beating heart is strong like hawaiian waves comes…

  • A Prayer by Liz Martelli

     “May love always find you on your feet and when you walk alone may I always be a pesky moth batting around in the cage of your skull hurling myself at your light.”  posted may 29, 2007 on her myspace page

  • A Tattoo for Mom by Liz Martelli

    This is not what my mother had dreamed for me 9 to 5 in retail still living at home my fiance in jail but i’m happy and i think i’m okay in fact i know i am i am my mother’s worry as big dutch once drew a tattoo for mom “mother’s worry;” what i…

  • DJ Fiction by Liz Martelli

    He spins poetry short fiction like a DJ spinning mixes Sampling from his memory single-note bassline looped in a continuous drone like a recurring theme In every cracked-spine novel tattered beat poem is a new blood drum thumping fingers clicking the alphabet keys deftly scratching the worn-out 33 Spinning lyrical melodies in run-ons and fragments…

  • Rabbits by Liz Martelli

     I make mistakes the way rabbits breed I keep bad company the way some men keep bees Bleed the rabbit and soak the skin tell me I’m not lyin’ Mr. Rabbit tell me how you boil so well under a skillet sun Mr. Rabbit tell me you’re not lucky. 130 days and some change I…

  • Liz Martelli You Will Be Missed

    Two days ago a young girl in our neighborhood died in a car accident. She was only 24. Only a few years older than my niece. While I may not have personally known her I do remember hearing about her from my friend who was her art teacher in middle school and about how talented…

  • One-car Crash Kills Reading Woman

    A Reading woman was killed Saturday morning when she lost control of her car on Route 30 in Hellam Township. Elizabeth Martelli was westbound on Route 30 when she drove off the road between 6 and 7 a.m. and flipped into a cornfield about a mile east of the Hellam exit, York County Deputy Coroner…

  • Back to Business

    Okay, so I have had lost of fun with YouTube [even though I generally hate the idea of uploading everything and anything to the web]. Some of the stuff is just great. As you can see by all my recent posts I like Chad Vader. But now to return to normal, okay, somewhat normal. Or…

  • Pay-Per-Play a New Way to Monetize Your Site

    When I first heard the term pay-per-play I thought it had to do with online videos or games. It doesn’t. It has everything to do with making money from your website. If you are like me you are not making enough money off those Google ads you have all over your website are you? People…

  • YawpBox Video Challenges You For Content

    User generated television is the primary goal of YawpBox.com, but unlike AcceptibleTV they are not asking you to create mini television series they want your life story. You get to tell your story to a world wide audience via the website and to a TV audience based in Texas. I am not sure if the…